Central Asia and the Caucasus: Transnationalism and Diaspora (Routledge Research in Transnationalism) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415332605 ISBN 13: 9780415332606

Publisher: Routledge, 2005

Synopsis

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, a number of linkages have been established between newly independent Central Asian states, or populations within them, and diaspora ethnic groups. This book explores the roles that diaspora communities play in the recent and ongoing emergence of national identities in Central Asia and the Caucasus.
The loyalties of these communities are divided between their countries of residence and those states that serve as homeland of their particular ethno-cultural nation, and are further complicated by connections with contested transnational notions of common cultures and 'peoples'. Written by highly respected experts in the field, the book addresses issues such as nationalism, conflict, population movement, global civil society, Muslim communities in China and relations between the new nation-states and Russia.
This innovative book will interest students and researchers of transnationalism and Central Asian studies.

About this title

About the Author:

Touraj Atabaki is Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History, Professor of Modern History at the University of Amsterdam and Professor of Iranian and Central Asian studies at the University of Utrecht.
Sanjyot Mehendale is Executive Director of the Caucasus and Central Asia Program at the University of California at Berkeley. She is also the director of the Uzbek-Berkeley Archaeological Mission.

Review:

'Certainly recommendable to both an academic and a graduate readership for its contrintion to the ongoing debate on multiple and divided loyalties and for the light it sheds on less researched empirical cases.' - International Affairs

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0415332605
• ISBN 13: 9780415332606
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Atabaki Touraj, Mehendale Sanjyot